Word: rugs
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...other blot is apt to frighten subjects who are unhappy or unstable, but "normal" people merely call it a bearskin rug or an animal's skin. Schizoid personalities sometimes see a man's face in the dark shadows, but sexually frustrated women see a gorilla or some other strong masculine figure, chasing them...
...strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...
Carolyn Wells, thriller-manufacturer (81 mysteries in 33 years), slipped on a rug in her Manhattan apartment, broke her right leg, right arm. "This is nothing new," she reported. "I've had seven breaks...
...Washington's concrete Uline Arena some 4,000 screaming rug-cutters watched Eleanor Roosevelt slice a 6-ft. birthday cake, distribute chunks to Rosalind Russell, Gene Autry, more than a dozen other cinema stars. Newlywed Actor Mickey Rooney crammed down five slices, mugging for cameramen, before Mrs. Roosevelt gave up. At one of Washington's smaller private parties in the Willard Hotel ballroom, Production Boss Donald Nelson tried to take the private elevator, was told by the operator: "Sorry, sir, but this is only for movie stars and big shots...
...When the quiz is first made up, asterisks are carried on the correct answers to avoid mistakes in the answer column, but these marks are, of course, supposed to be removed when TIME goes to press. This TIME the printers failed to sweep all the star dust under the rug...